Seasons 6 | Sweeneys Custom Landscaping Inc

A backyard garden with a curving grassy path, bordered by green shrubs and trees, leading to a white house with green roof and windows. Another house is partially visible in the background under a clear blue sky.

Making Your Way: Creating a Garden Path

Late March’s landscape was celebratory with sweet, blooming treats, from the tufts of cotton candy blooms and spun sugar strands of the Pear and Red Bud to the swaths of candy dots of the blue Vinca and Squill. Easter is upon is. A sure and positive sign we were on…

A happy dog stands on grass in a backyard, playfully biting at a stream of water sprayed from a hose near green bushes and a house window.

The Environmental Value & Benefits of a Healthy, Well-Maintained Lawn

The weather teetered between lovely and tumultuous as if someone, unknowingly, kept leaning against the light switch. In a moment, a lovely Spring day became a stormy Winter day, and back and forth it went. Nature’s apparent confusion would not sully the efforts of a landscape ready to burst…

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The Health Benefits of Gardening

The sweeping sky reflected in a small Spring puddle collected in a hole in the asphalt. For a moment, it held the heavens, and the ordinary became extraordinary. Enchanting nature was again beckoning us outdoors into her captivating and therapeutic realm. Spending time in green spaces has been proven to…

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Beautiful Lawns Begin in Spring

The once lethargic and hushed landscape became frenetic and boisterous with the jubilant sound of chirping and twittering birds who seemed to have a season’s worth of gossip to share. The squirrels too descended in mass from the trees to forage and romp. The landscape had come alive and…

Close-up of brown wood mulch pieces, showing rough, fibrous texture and small wood chips. The image focuses on the mulch, with details of individual splinters and fragments visible.

First Steps: Mulch

Spring ephemerals burst forth from the thawing ground as swelling buds adorned the trees. Whether March comes in like a lion or a lamb seems insignificant now, as Spring is well on her way. Along with Spring Clean Ups and Lawn Renovations, we must turn our attention to one…

A close-up of pink cherry blossoms and buds on a branch, with reddish-brown leaves and a blurred green background.

First Steps: Spring Clean Ups

Like a receding glacier, Winter began to wither and melt, leaving behind a scarred and battered landscape. Its tenuous grasp was loosening, and its legacy becoming more apparent, but March would surely deliver us unto Spring. Spring officially arrives March 19th, and Winter will be nothing more than a distant,…

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Sing for Your Spring

February arrived with sun upon her shoulders and Spring upon her lips. The distinct and dulcet tones of the bird song was an inclination that the season of renewal is not so very distant as the groundhog predicted. Winter birds, like Chickadees, Woodpeckers and Cardinals are some of the…

Close-up of tree roots with patches of grass and moss, wet from recent rain, in a garden with greenery and plants blurred in the background.

Getting to the Root of It

Swelling buds and burgeoning bulbs dappled the landscape with the power and promise of Spring. Soon the muddied, desolate earth would be replaced with color and life, and the barren trees would fill the sky with their lush canopies. In order for trees to leaf out, they must rely on…

Packets of flower seeds from Lone Star Seed Co., showing illustrations of colorful flowers like zinnia, poppy, larkspur, linaria, periwinkle, and others, overlapping each other.

Sowing Seeds in Winter… Outdoors

The air was thin and brittle, like paper. It sliced through flesh, wrinkled with every breath, and crumpled under foot. It was as if nature had been wrapped in a thin layer of cellophane, restrained and crinkling with every movement. It was a bitter and unforgiving landscape that stood stark and…

Ice crystals with intricate, feathery patterns cover a window, with a blurred background of trees and evening light visible through the frost.

Surviving Winter Scientifically

The clouds descended onto the ground, swallowing the land, tree tops first, and the snow swirled upon the wind before the horizon became entirely blurred. A wondrous and eerie site. Winter was beginning to flex her muscle. Winter can be a brutal but beautiful season, chiseled from marble, dramatic yet…

A blue jay with ruffled feathers perches on a branch in the rain, surrounded by bare twigs and a few yellow leaves. Rain streaks diagonally across the soft, blurred background.

How Birds Survive Winter

Finally snow! Sugar coated shrubs and lace capped trees refreshed the tired and gray landscape. And word has it, there’s more on the way followed by bitter temps. Winter has arrived! As we gaze upon the beauty of Winter from the safety and warmth of home, we ponder nature’s ability…

Two dried, brown flower heads in sharp focus are centered, with a blurred background of purple and yellow leaves. The lighting is natural, highlighting the textures and colors.

DIY Bird Seed

The sun settled into the saddle back of the hill, and tumbled off into the twilight. The shorter Winter days gave way to blushing lavender sunsets, cool and terse. Welcome January. As we begin to settle into our Winter routines while looking forward to Spring, why just fill our bird…

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